Re: RFC: Keywords instead of Section
> However, "license:other" still doesn't serve any particular
> purpose. I can always do without it by asking for packages that
> are
> !license:gpl && !license:bsd && !license:prop
> or whatever I really want. ':other' only has meaning relative to
You can do so, if you _know_ how to do that. But this is to help novice
users, which might not think of this possibility.
Basically license:non-free is some kind of "other", too, isn't it?
> the other keywords of that type; thus its meaning changes as
> keywords of that type are added.
Correct. Unfortunately, but i sometimes do see the need for this.
> I think we're understanding each other now.
Great. And it looks like we have the same goals, too ;)
[...]
> Wanna be on the Committee?
I don't have much time right now, so i probably won't help much with the
actual development (right now).
But i'd like to contribute of course.
We should ask freshmeat + sourceforge if we could get a dump of their
hierarchy structures (preferrably with some hit counts, so we can decide
where to subdivide further etc.?)
What do you think that the first step should be?
- Forming the keyword commitee, collecting keywords and starting to
classify packages (i.e. writing an overrides file for apt-ftparchive?)
- do some user interface for this? (based on aptitude, which has already
some kind of support?)
- pursue this discussion further and then contact debian-policy?
Greetings,
Erich
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